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(No'Model.)

W. DuNBLSON.

STREET GAR HEATER.

No. 270,558. Patented Jan.9,1883.

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lINrTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM D., NELSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

STREET-CAR HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,553, dated January 9, 1883.

i Application filed July 22, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WM. l). NELSON, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement `in Method ot and Apparatus for Heating Street- Cars; and lI hereby declare the following to be a full andclear description thereof.

The object ot' this invention is to provide a heater l'or warming street-cars ot' such simplicity ot' construction and application as to make it easily introduced into street-cars now in use. v

The invention consistsot' a stove or heater secured to the bottom of the car, so as to allow the smoke-pipe to pass along under the seat to the end of the car and rise up at the end ot' the car through the lamp-box, thereby taking .no valuable room for the heating apparatus from the inside of the car. Gold air from the outside of the car is sent through a hot-air or heating chamber by the sides of the fire-box of the stove or heater, and sent from thence up into the body of the car, thereby securing eX- cellent ventilation, as well as the warming of the car. Details of the construction will be hereinafter more .fully explained.

The invention will be readily understood by reference to the accompanying` drawings, Figure l of which represents a side elevation of a car titted with my improved heater. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation ofthe same. Fig. 3 is a detail of the stove or heater. Fig. 4 is a detail ot' the securing bed-plate or clampin g-iron by means of which the stove or heater is secured to the car. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the supporting-plate.

The car A is ot' the ordinary street-car pattern. In fact, any street-car may be fitted with these heaters.

The stove or heater B (seen in detail in Fig. 3) has a central lire-box, b, with an outside door, 1)',for introducing the fuel, and an upper portion, f, through which the productsot couibustion pass, and from which the heat radiates into the surrounding hot-air chamber A. When in place in the car this fuel-door will be below the car-body and open outwardly, so as to be easy of access for applying fuel to the lire or removing ashes therefrom. The bottom of the stove or heater casing is preferably hinged to open downward, so as to allow the y Oold air from the outside of the car enters the heating or hot-air chamber b4, at or near its bottom, through openings made for that purpose, and while the air is passing up through the chamber b4, it being in direct contact with the tire-box b and chamberf, it becomes rapidly warmed, and thence it passes up into the car through perforations a, made in the housing or hot-air box A below one ot' the seats of the car. v i

The smoke from the heater or tire-box'B passes out from the top part ot' the heater through the smoke-pipe O, the first section of which lies along under the seat in a nearlyhorizontal line, and the secondsection of which rises up through the double wall formed for the lamp-box D at the end of and near one corner of the car, thereby occupying no room of the car that is availablet'or passenger use, and inconnnoding or nconveniencing no passenger, as the riser-pipe will be protected by an outer covering or shield at ashort distance from it, so as to prevent burning or uncomfortably warming any one.

Thestove B is formed with grooves c in its sides, anda bed-plateorclamping-iron, E, made somewhat in a vU form, but having right-angled angles for a square or rectangular stove, is made to slide into and tit snugly in the said grooves e, and it projects perpendicularly from the sides ot' the said stove or heater, when in position therewith, suiiiciently to form a lange or bearing capable ot' holding the said stove or heater up to or in connection with the car Hoor or bottom, and the said plate E is perforated with numerous holes, c, for the reception of screws, by means of which it is fastened to the car floor or bottom.

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